  JANE E. PHILLIPS-CONROY Professor, Physical Anthropology and Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical School Ph.D., New York University, 1978 314-935-8066 baboon@thalamus.wustl.edu |
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| JANE E. PHILLIPS-CONROY Professor, Physical Anthropology and Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical School Ph.D., New York University, 1978 314-935-8066 baboon@thalamus.wustl.edu |
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My studies of free-ranging primates are focused on how behavioral, demographic, and ecological variables function to influence populaton structure. My research has been focused on a long-term study of the hybrid zone between olive and hamadryas baboons in the Awash National Park in Ethiopia (Papio hamadryas, s.l.). We trap and tag as many individuals as possible and examine a broad range of biological features, which we consider in their ecological and behavioral contexts. The scope of my research now extends to fields as diverse as genetics, morphology, and neurochemistry, in addition to continued interest in dental variation and its relevance for understanding morphological events that occur in the baboon hybrid zone. I describe my research as broad spectrum, integrative, and collaborative. My research also addresses the more general question of variation, distribution, adaptation, and speciation within the genus Papio as a whole; my fieldwork has extended to studies of yellow baboons in Tanzania and olive baboons in Kenya. I have also collected similar data on grivet monkeys, Cercopithecus aethiops, which are sympatric with the Ethiopian baboons, and have particularly focused on naturalistic studies of SIV transmission among these primates. In 1994, I, together with Robert Sussman, began to survey Guyana's rain forest primate species, and will continue to direct our students and research to their study and conservation.
For more information see the overview of the department's research in physical anthropology.
Principles of Human Anatomy and Development, Comparative Primate Anatomy, Evolutionary Human Anatomy
Phillips-Conroy, J.E., C.J. Jolly and F.L. Brett
1991 The characteristics of hamadryas-like males living in anubis baboon groups. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 86:353-368.
Phillips-Conroy, J.E. C.J. Jolly, P. Nystrom and H. Hemmalin.
1992 Migration in male hamadryas baboons of the Awash National Park, Ethiopia. In E.O. Smith and D. Sprague, eds., Dispersal and Migration in Nonhuman Primates. International Journal of Primatology 13:455-476.
Phillips-Conroy, J.E., Hildebolt, C.F., Altmann,J., Jolly, C.J. and Muruthi, P.
1993 A comparison of peridontal disease in free-ranging baboons from Ethiopia (Awash National Park) and Kenya (Amboseli National Park). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 90:359-371.
Phillips-Conroy, J.E., C.J. Jolly, B. Petros, J.S. Allan, and R.C. Desrosiers.
1994 Longitudinal Study of Sivagm in the wild suggests a predominantly sexual mode of transmission. Journal of Medical Primatology 23:9-14.
Sussman, R.W. and J.E. Phillips-Conroy
1995 A study of the primates of Guyana: Survey and 20 years comparison. International Journal of Primtology 16:761-791.
C.J. Jolly, T.R. Turner, S. Broussard, J. Allan and J.E. Phillips-Conroy,
SIV agm incidence over two decades in a natural population of Ethiopian grivet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops aethiops). Journal of Medical Primatology 25:78-83.
C.J. Jolly, T. Woolley-Barker, S. Beyene, TR Disotell and J.E. Phillips-Conroy
1997 Intergeneric hybrid baboons. International Journal of Primatology Vol 18: 597-627.
Kaplan, J.R, Phillips-Conroy, J.E., Fontenot, M.B., Jolly, C.J., Fairbanks, L.A., Mann, J.J.
C.J. Folly and J.E. Phillips-Conroy
Field primatology and biomedical research. Science 284:49.
1999 Cerebrospinal fluid monoaminerfic metabolites differ in wild anubis and hybrid (anubis-hamadryas) baboons: possible relationships to life history and behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology 20(6):517-524.
T.J. Bergman, C.J. Jolly, and J.E. Phillips Conroy
Quantitative assessment of occlusal wear and age estimation in Ethiopian baboons. In Old World Monkeys, C.J. Jolly adn P. Whitehead, eds., pp. 321-340. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
W.E. Banks, C.J. Jolly, J.E. Morley, and J.E. Phillips-Conroy
Serum Leptin levels in wild and captive populations of baboons (Papio): Implications for the ancestral role of Leptin.Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 86:4315-4320.
